The Hooded One

The Hooded One

Areas: Clearfell Encampment (Act 1), Vastiri Outskirts (Act 2), The Ardura Caravan (Act 2), Sandswept Marsh (Act 3), Ziggurat Encampment (Act 3)
Functions: Identify Items, Refund Passives

The Hooded One is an NPC. He is a major character in Path of Exile 2's campaign. He is first met in the Act 1 area The Grelwood and becomes interactable after completing Sorrow Among Stones. Afterwards, he will be present in every act's town.

Functions

The Hooded One can identify all items in your inventory. He also allows you to respec allocated passive skill points for a Gold fee. You can also change the attribute points of allocated travel nodes for half price.

Ctrl+LMB on The Hooded One will automatically identify all items in your inventory. Alt+LMB will open up the respec menu.

Dialogue

Act 2

Title	Dialogue
To Utzaal	The Beast has grown beyond our ability to contain it. We must search for something greater than we currently possess, something that can drain its power and bring it back to a more manageable form. While I slumbered under the numbing effects of Corruption, there was an empire that mastered the use of that deadly energy. We must go to the jungles of the long-ago Vaal. Their ruins may yet hold the secrets we need. That is where we must go, to the sunken city of Utzaal. It is our only hope.
The Shrine	I am thousands of years old. I was mortal first, but then I was deified against my will by my brother... but that is a story for another time. I spent my early divine life in Keth. I loved, and was loved. I even had a daughter. This shrine depicts them both. They were revered by the Maraketh.
Wife	Garukhan was the true jewel of the Vastiri, at least to me. Divine love is much like mortal love, at least from what I can remember, and we were happy for a time longer than the lives of many mortal men. The time came, however, when love was not enough. Her humanity sifted through the cracks of her life like fine sand, leaving a divine shell that held her image, but nothing of her soul. It is a trap, you see. Divinity. Faith empowers, but faith also shapes. To gather more power, a god must play the part, becoming more and more the icon their followers perceive. When does perception become reality? It's impossible to pinpoint, and that's the most sinister thing about it. You never know the moment you cross the line.
Daughter	You want the truth? I betrayed her, and had her killed. There are not enough excuses in all of Wraeclast to make up for what I did. I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. I thought it was the only way to save humanity. And yet, here we are again, chasing the Beast and fighting for the fate of the world. I am beginning to suspect that the cycle of history may never end, unless we surpass ourselves and find another way. But until we do, we will solve this the only way we know how: with violence.
Utzaal	The Beast has grown too powerful. We can no longer contain it through mortal means. There was once an Empire that embraced corruption. They studied it, mastered it, and became the greatest civilization the world has ever known. But it led to their destruction. Our allies will continue the pursuit of the Beast, but we shall undertake a different search. We must go to the ruins of the Vaal Empire in search of a weapon against the coming cataclysm.

Act 3

Title	Dialogue
Legacy of the Vaal	Utzaal is close. Be careful. The Vaal heavily relied on the use of corruption. Their lands may still be dangerous.
Introduction	Somewhere in this region, there were sophisticated canals and waterways. We might be able to use them to drain this lake. We must hope that the mechanisms are still functioning, despite their age. It is the only way to reverse the drowning of this once thriving city... the first step in our search for the secret knowledge of the Vaal.
The Vaal	It is strange to return to this place of my divine youth and see it so aged and forgotten. When I was here, the Vaal were the height of civilisation, and their future was bright. They had their problems, like any other people, but I thought I could free them from the moral hazards of Divinity by removing gods from the equation. While we are here, I would like to discover whether this ruination is my fault, or whether something else happened to them...
Ancient Device	Because we have lost the trail of the Seed of Destruction, our only hope is to seek the knowledge of those who studied the Beast for centuries: the Vaal. I know something of the Beast's creation myself... but I was asleep while it was actually alive. There is only one Vaal city left intact after two thousand years, and that is where we must go. In my wanderings these last twenty years, I have seen evidence that a Vaal scientist was working on an incredibly powerful device intended to defend his people against a potential Cataclysm. Obviously, it wasn't completed in time... but perhaps we can pick up where he left off.
Utzaal	Utzaal is the last intact Vaal city, for a reason that will also be our greatest hurdle. During the first Cataclysm, the city was flooded, killing most of its population and burying its wealth under a valley of water. Corruption has since poisoned that water, making it impossible for anyone to loot the city. From my time in Utzaal when I was young, I do have some idea how to solve this problem... we shall speak again when we find it.
Lowering the Water	You have found the Waterways? Search it for a control mechanism. Vaal technology, at least in that era, was based on engraved stonework and latent systems of channeled energy. It should be operational, even after all this time... drain the city, and let us see what ancient secrets Utzaal has kept protected for us.
Lowering the Water	The members of this expedition seem to believe the Ziggurat beneath our feet holds an ancient device that was intended to be used against the Cataclysm that destroyed the Vaal. The source of that Cataclysm was the previous Beast... which means the device below may be exactly what we need to stop the new one. Find your way into the Ziggurat, and let us see what the greatest minds of the Vaal Empire created. If they didn't manage to complete it in time, maybe we can finish their work...
Ancient Gateway	This portal provides an opportunity that I had never considered. To consult the greatest minds of the Vaal directly. Enter the portal. Find their experts on the Beast, or on Corruption. They may know of ways to control corruption that even I am not aware of.
Doryani's Capture	Returning with Doryani was an inspired move. As the foremost expert on the Beast that ever lived, he is exactly the man we need. I doubt we can trust him in a broader sense, but, for the moment, our goals are aligned. He wishes to contain the Beast, and so do we. If he thinks we should travel south to Ngamakanui, then so we shall. This weapon of the Precursors... it may just be our best hope...

Lore

The Hooded One's true identity revealed in Act 2.

At the end of Act 2, The Hooded One revealed himself as Sin, one of the gods and a major ally first introduced in Path of Exile.

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.